It may be tin hats time at S4Capital, Sir Martin Sorrell’s digital-only creation, but the great dealmaker is still on the case, striking a deal to buy LA-based tech services company TheoremOne. S4 has lost half its market value since ...
Read More »Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital takes more heavy fire
S4Capital’s share price headed sharply downwards this morning following a good kicking in the influential UK Sunday Times yesterday (subscription required.) ‘How chaotic accounting engulfed Sir Masrtin Sorrell’s S4 Capital empire’ was the headline, referring to the essentially book-keeping problems ...
Read More »S4Capital has to chart its course in a market changed by a perfect storm of global bad news
All of a sudden the world’s looking more troubled for adland, despite its better than expected bounceback form the recession. A perfect storm of war in the Ukraine and its effect on energy and commodity prices, a grinding halt in ...
Read More »Sorrell’s S4Capital hit by financial results audit issue
Thought Sir Martin Sorrell had been strangely quiet recently. One reason would have been that he was waiting to announce S4Capital’s 2021 financial results, due today. But just before 4pm, the go-go digital marketing services group, built around the Media.Monks ...
Read More »S4 Capital’s Media.Monks adds US 4 Mile data business
S4Capital’s Media.Monks has added another data business, 4 Mile Analytics based in Santa Cruz, California. The company, founded by Nick Fogler in 2017, works with Fortune 500 brands deploying technology from partners including Looker, Snowflake, Fivetran and Google Cloud. With ...
Read More »MediaMonks London boosts management team with five senior female hires
It’s ‘here come the girls’ at S4Capital’s MediaMonks London (are you allowed to say that any more? Oh well, it’s done now) as the agency expands its London headcount to 85 with five senior female hires. MediaMonks says it’s committed ...
Read More »Watch out for albatrosses says Sorrell to WPP’s Read
S4Capital’s Sir Martin Sorrell is 75 on Friday (St Valentine’s Day – happy birthday Martin) but advancing years don’t seem to have mellowed him. In an Ad age podcast he refers to the way all the holding companies, especially his ...
Read More »Sorrell’s S4C inks deal with Mexico digital leader Circus
Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4Capital has announced another “merger’ (its favoured term), this time with Mexico City’s award-winning Circus Marketing, described as a fully integrated digital agency. Circus, which also has an office in Spain, will be rolled into S4C’s content ...
Read More »Global M&A slows as China falls while holding companies stay on the sidelines
Global mergers and acquisitions activity in adland slowed markedly in 2019 according to new figures from consultancy R3 Worldwide. R3 clocked 489 deals worth a total $27.7bn in 2019, down 15 per cent on the previous year. North America was ...
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